Displaying articles with tag beer

Beer Craving 2008

Posted by hank, Sat Jun 14 17:11:00 UTC 2008

Today, I got the craving for some beer again. I drove down to Corridor Fine Wines and picked up 49 beers (singles, of course).

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How to drink a Guinness in Ireland

Posted by hank, Sat Oct 13 15:05:00 UTC 2007

If I ever end up in Ireland, I think I will have to try a Guinness. This Article explains how to avoid any embarrassment and what to look out for.

Also, there was a really cool picture of a nuke going off today:

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A Beer Atom Feed

Posted by hank, Fri Oct 12 23:10:00 UTC 2007

So, after reviewing over 50 beers on BeerAdvocate, I’ve come to the conclusion that them not having an RSS or Atom feed of my most recent reviews available is stupid. So, I decided to make my own by scraping their HTML today. I started off by pumping some random code into irb that included Hpricot and Builder. Ruby rocks for doing stuff like this.

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The Great Beering of 2007

Posted by hank, Sat Aug 25 20:33:00 UTC 2007

So I decided that I should take Kelsey to Corridor Fine Wines to have a look around, and to find some of the wines she’s liked before. I also wanted to visit the beer section. We left after 2 hours $180 poorer. Here are some pictures of the spoils:

This should make for a fun month.

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Beer Review #1: Yuengling

Posted by hardwarehank, Thu Nov 09 09:11:03 UTC 2006

Yuengling is very common over here on the East Coast. It is apparently the oldest major brew in America, which is awesome. I like it quite a bit for a normal drinkable beer, but it is slightly too watery for my taste.